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Designed by Silicon Valley veterans for today’s ambitious professionals
SCU’s Online MBA
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Female Online MBA student with arms crossed in front of fountain
Designed by Silicon Valley veterans for today’s ambitious professionals
SCU’s Online MBA

Have your sights set on Silicon Valley?

Earn more, faster. Leavey ranks #2 for employment at tech giants.2

In Silicon Valley, things are rarely “business as usual.” Standing out in this dynamic, cutting-edge community requires the right combination of skills, attitude, and experience—and the credentials to prove it.

With the Santa Clara University Online MBA, you’ll have all that and more.

Designed by Silicon Valley veterans for today’s ambitious professionals, SCU’s Top Ten Best Online MBA program is the key to propelling your career.2 Learn business essentials, principled leadership, and up-and-coming tools to make waves in the Valley, the Bay Area, or wherever your next step takes you.

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Earn Your MBA Online from the SCU Leavey School of Business

The ultimate goal of the Online MBA curriculum is to help students become a Silicon Valley Professional (SVP). An SVP is a person with the skills and tenacity to make change happen in their career and for their company, along with the compassion and ethics to make a positive impact in their community. Each course, residency, and co-curricular is designed and verified by Silicon Valley executives to teach the skills they look for in hiring, which fall under these four domains:

  • Domain 1: Principled Leadership
  • Domain 2: Communication and Team Building
  • Domain 3: Analysis and Interpretation
  • Domain 4: Innovation and Entrepreneurial Mindset

Within these domains, you’ll learn the following values and skills:


  • Communication
  • Collaboration and Teamwork
  • Networking
  • Diversity and Open-Mindedness
  • Teambuilding
  • Organizational Skills
  • Integrity and Accountability
  • Problem-Solving
  • Data Analysis
  • Innovation and Curiosity
  • Communication
  • Collaboration and Teamwork
  • Networking
  • Diversity and Open-Mindedness
  • Teambuilding
  • Organizational Skills
  • Integrity and Accountability
  • Problem-Solving
  • Data Analysis
  • Innovation and Curiosity

The SVP process, however, is not just limited to the curriculum.

While taking Online MBA classes, you’ll work in the Silicon Valley Professional dashboard, an integrative portfolio designed to simplify your learning experience. Here, you can plan your electives and co-curriculars to make sure you’re on track for your career goals. The dashboard also serves as a networking tool with faculty, mentors, classmates, alumni, and more to receive feedback on your progress and make new connections.

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The Catalyst for Your Career

#1
in Career Outcomes (Poets&Quants)1
#2
for employment at tech giants2
#11
Best Online MBA (Poets&Quants)3
#11
Academic Experience (Poets&Quants)4

Learn From Leaders

The SCU Online MBA faculty is a dynamic mix of Silicon Valley educators and veterans of industries ranging from Big Tech to CPG to healthcare. As helpful as they are knowledgeable, the faculty is eager to share its wealth of global experience and business advice with you and your classmates.

Build Powerful Connections

In the Online MBA program, you will build a vibrant professional network that spans Silicon Valley, the Bay Area, and beyond. Connect with faculty, classmates, and alumni at major companies like Google, Apple, GoPro, and Tesla to make your next career move.

Unparalleled Earning Potential

Earn an MBA that pays you back in abundance. Leavey School of Business alumni are among the best-compensated MBA graduates in the country.5

Concentrations & Curriculum

This dynamic curriculum features five available online concentrations in Data Science and Business Analytics, Leading Innovative Organizations, Marketing, Finance, and Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation. While selecting a concentration is not required in order to complete the online master’s degree in business administration, concentrations allow students to showcase an area of focus within their degree. If you’d like to specialize in a particular area of business, consider choosing from the concentrations below.

Data Science and Business Analytics Concentration

The Data Science and Business Analytics concentration provides you with the most up-to-the-minute analytical and data skills, embedded within a context of essential business knowledge. Students will learn to synthesize company data resources with broader knowledge of markets to address a wide range of business problems, offer market-based perspectives and solutions to help business intelligence drive corporate value, and work directly with engineering and technical teams to deliver data-driven solutions.

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Leading Innovative Organizations Concentration

The Leading Innovative Organizations concentration will help you effectively create, organize, and sustain organizational systems and processes necessary for success in rapidly changing and turbulent environments. Building from the management and innovation core courses, you will deepen your overall understanding of the innovation context, leadership in complex environments, team and project management, and agile decision-making.

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Marketing Concentration

The Marketing concentration will help you develop a comprehensive understanding of the development, management, and marketing of products, brands, and services in contexts including high tech, business-to-business, services, and more. Students will focus on state-of-the-art quantitative and qualitative tools and techniques that are utilized by innovative companies across their marketing applications.

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Finance Concentration

The Finance concentration will provide students with the knowledge and skills to evaluate and manage financial securities such as stocks, bonds, options, and futures, and it will familiarize students with key financial markets. Students will learn how to apply financial principles in corporate settings, such as choosing and managing investment projects, and in investment settings, such as by constructing investment portfolios. They will also build knowledge of the links between finance and other business functions such as marketing and operations.

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Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation Concentration

Leveraging SCU’s location and strong alumni presence in Silicon Valley, this concentration examines the tools needed to develop ideas into businesses and to stimulate entrepreneurship activities in existing mature businesses.

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Tuition Rates for the 2023-2024 Academic Year

The online admissions team is here to help you find the best possible solutions to financing your education. The program's current costs are listed below and are subject to change annually.

Online MBA Tuition 2023-2024 Academic Year
Cost per Unit $1,277
Units 70

Meet Your Professors

Dedicated to finding innovative solutions to any and all problems, the Leavey School of Business faculty is comprised of experienced leaders in business. They have the know-how and tools needed to help motivated professionals advance their skills sets.

Meet the Faculty

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Online MBA Admissions Deadlines

Nov
1
Preferred Deadline
November 1
Winter 2025 Term
Nov
25
Priority Deadline
November 25
Winter 2025 Term
Dec
15
Application Deadline
December 15
Winter 2025 Term
Jan
6
Next Start
January 6
Winter 2025 Term

In Silicon Valley, things are rarely “business as usual.” Standing out in this dynamic, cutting-edge community requires the right combination of skills, attitude, and experience—and the credentials to prove it.

With the Santa Clara University Online MBA, you’ll have all that and more.

Designed by Silicon Valley veterans for today’s ambitious professionals, our Top 20 Best Online MBA program is the key to propelling your career.2 Learn business essentials, principled leadership, and up-and-coming tools to make waves in the Valley, the Bay Area, or wherever your next step takes you.

Sources
  1. Retrieved on April 3, 2024, from poetsandquants.com/2023/11/27/ranking-poetsquants-best-online-mba-programs-2024/5/
  2. Retrieved on April 3, 2024, from fortune.com/education/articles/want-to-work-at-amazon-or-microsoft-this-mba-program-is-an-unsuspecting-feeder-school-for-seattle-tech-giants/
  3. Retrieved on April 3, 2024, from poetsandquants.com/2023/11/27/ranking-poetsquants-best-online-mba-programs-2024/3
  4. Retrieved on April 3, 2024, from poetsandquants.com/2023/11/27/ranking-poetsquants-best-online-mba-programs-2024/6/
  5. Retrieved on April 3, 2024, from poetsandquants.com/2018/01/29/the-highest-paid-mba-alumni/2/